Ik vond dit geen slecht boek maar nu ook niet om te zeggen dat ik het geweldig vond. Het ging over een jongetje dat aan een zware vorm van schizofrenie lijdt en als doel heeft de opwarming van de aarde (en zijn lichaam) tegen te gaan. Dit doel kan hij enkel bereiken door seks te hebben met een wi...
William Heller or Lowboy as he calls himself, is sixteen, schizophrenic, maybe dangerous. He allegedly shoved a girlfriend before the subway. The cops from the NYPD are after him, along with his mother. But Lowboy has a much worse problem: since he has broken out of the asylum, the world strives ...
Did that just happen?!?!I found myself shifting loyalties throughout the book - especially toward the author. Did I like how he was portraying Lowboy, which was the reason I was drawn to this novel in the first place - there was definitely a personal stakes for me here....At times, I thought the ...
I’m not sure what to make of The Right Hand of Sleep. I think I missed a lot. Wray is certainly a fine writer, purportedly one of the best of the new crop, and his characters make interesting reading companions. However, I wasn’t sure where the book was going much of the time, and now that it’s o...
From the acclaimed and prizewinning author of The Right Hand of Sleep (“Brilliant…A truly arresting work”—The New York Times Book Review), an explosive allegorical no0vel set on the eve of the Civil War, about a gang of men hunted by both the Union and the Confederacy for dealing in stolen slaves...
Haven, but the possibility no longer worries me. I’m still writing for an audience of one, still bearing witness, as I’ve done since the beginning; but sometimes I wonder. Someone will read this, I’m certain of that. But my audience might not be you—or “you”—at all. It could even be the Timekeepe...
Lateef watched her go down with the calm of a man watching a rogue wave rushing toward a crowded beach, able to witness the event and guess at its meaning but helpless to keep the event from happening. The children broke into a run, but there was nothing to be done about that yet. He had time to ...
